Bibliograph

John F. Kennedy, Alan Brinkley

Type

Label

John F. Kennedy, Alan Brinkley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

John F. Kennedy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

759491808

Responsibility statement

Alan Brinkley

Series statement

The American presidents

Summary

"John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961?the youngest man ever elected to the office?and he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the 1960s. But as Alan Brinkley shows in his ... assessment, the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. His brief presidency encountered significant failures?among them the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which cast its shadow on nearly every national-security decision that followed. But Kennedy also had successes, among them the Cuban Missile Crisis and his belated but powerful stand against segregation. Kennedy seemed to live on a knife's edge, moving from one crisis to another?Cuba, Laos, Berlin, Vietnam, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. His controversial public life mirrored his hidden private life. He took risks that would seem reckless and even foolhardy when they emerged from secrecy years later. Kennedy's life, and his violent and sudden death, reshaped our view of the presidency. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his enduring legacy."--Amazon

Table Of Contents

The Irish prince -- The uncertain politician -- The great ambition -- The perils of the new frontier -- "Flexible response" -- Freedom -- The evolving Cold War -- Quagmire -- The afterlife of John F. Kennedy

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